No bandwidthd packages available

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Trying to follow https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/network_monitoring/bandwidthd on my TP-Link Archer C7 running OpenWrt 23.05.2

I've updated opkg (both cli and in luci), but don't see any bandwidthd packages.

My overall aim is to get historical bandwidth monitoring / graphs per IP/host, and it looks like bandwidthd would be a good option (using usb storage or perhaps connecting to a db or storage over the network etc..)

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It was removed in this pull request due to being unmaintained upstream:

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As @greem explains, it was removed due to no upstream maintenance over some years (IMHO it is still a viable, mature package that provides exactly what it was designed to do in the IPv4 realm).

I’ve continued to maintain the package in my local source and continue to build it into all my OpenWrt devices and continue to use it still for my personal use.

The caveat being of course, you will have to build it yourself.

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OP should be able to manually install the package from an older release?

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Definitely. ipk’s are available.

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Thanks very much.

I was able to download a package from a 22.03.x release, and installation went fine - seems the dependencies are still compatible etc..

Appreciate the help, thank you!

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Actually, looks like one of the old packages has a conflict and won't install (without jumping through some hoops anyway):

Collected errors:
 * check_data_file_clashes: Package libgd-full wants to install file /usr/lib/libgd.so
        But that file is already provided by package  * libgd
 * check_data_file_clashes: Package libgd-full wants to install file /usr/lib/libgd.so.3
        But that file is already provided by package  * libgd
 * check_data_file_clashes: Package libgd-full wants to install file /usr/lib/libgd.so.3.0.11
        But that file is already provided by package  * libgd
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package bandwidthd-sqlite.

Ideally I'd like to be able to use just the functionality to write data out to sqlite, and have the php front end elsewhere, but doesn't look like that's possible with the packages as they are.

Anyway, happy to mark this solved as the mystery of the missing packages has been solved with everyone's help. Thanks.

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Just remove libgd and replace it with libgd-full which is required by bandwidthd-sqlite (adds about 15.25Kb).

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